New Years Day found us settling in at Buccaneer State Park on the Mississippi Gulf Shore. We unpacked from our New Orleans adventure and organized ourselves for the next two weeks of T@B living. We feasted on alligator and shrimp at Da’ Kitchen. Don’t know if that will bring us luck in the coming year but it was a fine meal that fortified us for some shopping and an evening of holing up inside while the rain came down outside. Now after a home cooked breakfast we are ready to begin creeping east along US-90. Perhaps to Gulfport MS.
Queen Mary 2’s arrival in the Port of Dakar, Senegal was heralded in the local press and greeted with ceremony. Our own excursion took us on a coach journey through the streets of the capital city to visit a Wolof village and the shore of Lake Retba, the salty lake famed for an intense pink color.
Today’s safari adventure transported us out into the Dorob National Park to have up close encounters with little creatures that are well adapted to the extreme heat and lack of water in the Namib Desert.
With a UNESCO World Heritage Site, two national parks, dozens of museums, and hundreds of tours offered in the Cape Town area there is more than plenty to do. For our two day visit we opted to concentrate on African wildlife visiting the Aquila Private Game Reserve and the Boulders Beach Penguin Colony for a wonderful chance to these fabulous animals in their own habitat.
Stay safe and dry.